I’ve seen the movie Alice in Wonderland a couple of times and I already knew that the book would be the same. The book seemed a little different than anything I’ve ever read before (because of the style of writing Lewis Carroll uses) and makes your mind wonder what Alice is thinking. Alice apparently is this little girl who falls through a giant rabbit hole and finds herself in a weird adventure. Since I’m not done the book I can’t really tell you the ending but I know that somehow she will end up back home where she belongs. There is also a part where she drinks something that’s says DRINK ME in big letters, it made her shrink to the size of a mouse so she could fit through a certain door. She ends up eating a cake which says EAT ME in big letters and made her grow nine feet taller. This book is not a book that I’m used to reading; sometimes I even struggle to read it. This caused because I try to understand Lewis Carroll’s point of view in this story (because he is narrating it. In addition, in the beginning Alice seemed to be sitting near a bank of a river and dozes off, this could be a hint why she is having this weird dream about her being in this sort of wonderland. Since this book has two stories in it I will have to reach the beginning of the other side later on. I never read or heard about "Through The Looking Glass" and hope I will understand THAT story more than this one. This story in my opinion is for a child to read because in their situation they can understand it and makes it more interesting for them. The reason I say that because every animal in this story talks and says funny stuff (mostly in riddles according to the Disney movies)and is best suited for a children. In conclusion my first impression of this book isn't very good because of the style of writing that Lewis Carroll has, who the audience of the book is and without the pictures it would be hard for ANYONE to understand.

First Impression

This book is absolute unbelievable and creative to the point where we have a rabbit talking, like I mean a kind of idea inside of a human mind. Overall, I read the first 50 pages so far and I think it’s really getting somewhere where things get more dangerous, but it’s hard to follow because some things don’t make sense. The characters that I know so far in the book are Alice, a little girl who puts herself into danger. Then there is a Rabbit, he can talk and nervous and always runs away seeming he has something important to do. Then there is the mouse, this mouse is a little bigger than Alice and is sensitive and scared of creatures in the place “Wonderland”.
Its starts off with Alice chasing the Rabbit and falls into this huge Rabbit Hole, at the end of the Rabbit Hole, she is in a mysterious place leading to lots of doors and the floor is checkered black-white. This gets the reader confused you never seen in your mind the particular area I mentioned in this paragraph. After it gets the reader thinking and want to read more. Alice finds a glass bottle on a table and she drinks it, this product makes her shrink. Then there is a cake that appeared, if you eat it, you grow until your head’s hit the ceiling. The reader is guessing that food from the Wonderland can give you side effects. Alice finds a way out the room of a thousand doors by a trap door leading outside in her shrunk size. She lands in a pool of her tears. This confuses the reader but gets him interested, the world she’s in is a land full of Wonders. She meets a mouse in the pool of tears, this guy is sensitive and gets frighten when you say dogs, or cats in front of him, guess he has past nightmares when he was little. They went to shore and the land has the greenest grass, and mushrooms larger than a human. As you see, the reader can quite picture this in their mind and gets them really thinking what else is going to happen, something out of the ordinary, waiting for mysterious creatures. This book is fantastic and this is great book.

First Impression

After Reading the first few chapters of "Alice in Wonderland" I discovered that it is no ordinary story. The story begins with Alice in pursuit of a talking rabbit. After falling down in a very deep rabbit hole, Alice finds herself in an extraordinary dimension with imaginary creatures.

In my opinion, the tone of the book is very mysterious, mystical, interesting, and unpredictable. I think this story is unpredictable because the story is filled with many weird creatures and is full of many twists and cliffhangers from the very beginning. This leaves the reader curious, and guessing from the very first page.

The story is also given a very interesting storyline. At the moment, the plot is confusing and vague and should clear up in the next few chapters. The story is about a big, red headed Queen who dictates a mystical world known as "Wonderland". Just when Wonderland needs help most, Alice is "accidentally" lead down by the rabbit. This may foreshadow future heroism in the story.

The main character Alice, is a very curious, and childish child. From what I have read so far, Alice seems to be a very talkative, daring, adventurous, and sensitive child. She also cries a lot. (She literally almost drowned herself in tears. ) But as the story progresses, I think we will start to see Alice's Heroic, and Courageous characteristics.

In my conclusion, I think the authour did a great job making the book very mysterious, and extraordinary. With all the unusual and weird creatures that is introduced to the reader, I think Louise Carol has done a fantastic job portraying a "Wonderland" theme.

First Impression

After reading forty four pages from the book “Alice in wonderland”, I realized that it was very quire and much different from our ordinary children book. It was a bit confusing, at first. In the beginning Alice follows a talking white rabbit and during the chase she falls down what seeme to be a never ending rabbit hole. Once she finally hits bottom of the hole, she seems to be in a completely new, purely imaginative world.

So far I only know about four characters, Alice, Alice’s sister, a rabbit, and Alice’s cat(Dinah) I have a very vague image of most of the characters. So far all that I know is that Alice seems to be very outgoing and can never stop talking. She seems to have a mild case of ADD, and the last thing I know is that she is chasing a very spastic white rabbit who is always rushing and saying “I’m Late”. The bunny also has a little suit and a watch attached to a silver chain.

In the beginning of the story it states that Alice and her sister are sitting on “the bank”. Later Alice starts to follow a white rabbit around and falls down a rabbit hole. As she Is falling down she notices that on the walls of the hole there are a bunch of pictures pinned all around. Then she finally drops all the way to the bottom of the hole and she sees herself, in what seems to be, a brand new extraordinary world with imaginary creatures.

This book, so far, seems to be very mysterious and extremely unpredictable. This is why it tends to be very confusing to most readers. The book has so many surprise “twists” and problems within the first twenty five pages that it leaves everyone curious which makes them want to read more and more. Lewis Carroll has done an outstanding job so far, keeping me hooked and I just cant wait to continue reading.

First Impressions Journal

After watching the Disney movie of this book numerous times as a kid I guess I was able to expect what was coming, however the other half of the book is called "Through the Looking Glass" so I believe that reading that there will be a whole lot more crazy stuff happening, in this continuation.

In the first chapter, 'Down The Rabbit-Hole', It narrates how Alice was by the river bank bored of her sister reading her a book. Out of no where Alice see's a rabbit run past her and it pulls out a stopwatch afraid it will be late for something. The rabbit then runs past the meadows and into a hole. Alice tries to run after the rabbit and catch it but then stumbles down the hole where the rabbit dived into. Alice fell slowly down the hole, as if she was floating down to the bottom. She then falls onto the floor with the normal gravitational pull, unhurt. She catches a glimpse of the white rabbit, then disappears around the corner.

She finds herself in a room with several doors, and a key sitting on a table in the middle of the room. She uses the key to try and open each door, then finds a door behind a curtain which the key was able to be used and unlocked the door. However the door was too small for her to possibly fit in it. she goes back to the table hoping to find something to help her out. She finds a bottle that has a tag on it, and written on the tag says "Drink Me". She then shrinks but then realizes as she shrank that she left the key on the table which she was now too small to reach. She then finds a cake that also had a tag saying "Eat Me", She eats it.

All this that is being explained in the novel is completely preposterous and impossible, I mean eating edible items that will change your size and being, falling down a rabbit hole and falling down as if you were drifting through space. All this is crazy however it is called Wonderland so i guess the place must be full of imaginative beings.

Character Analysis

Alice

Alice is an educated young girl from a wealthy English family who finds herself in a strange world ruled by imagination and fantasy. Alice feels comfortable with herself and has a strong sense that her environment is made up of imagination and magic. Alice’s knowledge with the world has led me to describe her as a “crazy, imaginative little girl”. Alice uses her curiosity to try and figure out what this new world consists of.
Alice approaches wonderland as if she is the only educated proper girl there.( which later she finds out is true) Despite the fact that she thinks she is number one, she still enters wonderland with an open imaginative mind, just like any little girl would, but puts on her own “poker face” to try and make the others living there think otherwise.

The Cheshire Cat

The Cheshire Cat is the most unique creature in wonderland. Threatened by no one, it maintains a cool, outsider status. The Cheshire Catis basically the “inside man” of wonderland, He tends to always know everything that has happened. Wonderland is ruled by nonsense, and as a result, Alice’s normal behavior changes from its operating principles, so Alice herself becomes crazy in Wonderland.

The Queen of Hearts

As the ruler of Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is the character that Alice must face to figure out the puzzle of Wonderland. In a way the Queen of Hearts is like the heart of Alice’s conflict. Unlike many of the other characters in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts is not as concerned with nonsense of logic as she is with rule and execution. In Wonderland, she is a singular force of fear who even dominates the King of Hearts.

First Impressions Journal

Alice in Wonderland is not a normal book; it doesn’t have a normal monster that is something out of the ordinary. This book is quite special in the sense that everything that Alice experiences is very suspicious and makes you think, there’s no way this even makes sense. The book starts off with Alice lying down by a river with her sister beside her, who is reading a book, on a very hot summer day which made her sleepy (Possible Foreshadowing and seems suspicious) and tired. A couple of pages later she’s falling down a seemingly endless hole in the middle of no where, to do what? Follow a rabbit that she thinks is talking, which of course isn’t normal.

After falling down this hole, she arrives in a place which I believe to be Wonderland because nothing ordinary could end up being that far into the Earth. I presume that the overall tone of the book is just to be mysterious and to leave cliffhangers throughout the chapters to lure the reader’s attention and to keep them reading the book. It’s not too soon that Alice meets up with birds, fish, and other various creatures that could in fact talk to her, respond to how she feels and reply what she says.

Right now from the first fifty-five pages of the book I’ve read, this book seems interesting because of the fact that there are very weird creatures being introduced to the reader and very unusual objects that Alice herself is introduced to. For example, the drink that says “Drink Me” isn’t something you would find everyday. Or even the cake that says “Eat Me”. Even if there was a drink and a cake that says that, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t make you grow nine feet tall or shrink to the size of an ant.